THI! CATHOLIC WORKER

Sub•criptlont Vol. XI. No. 7 October, ' 1948 ,25o Per Year Price le

EASY L ON ESSAY Christ ·the King PILGRIMAGE By PETER MAURIN By DOR01JIY DAY Reprinted from an earlier issue.

When we went to press last month we had only the day before For God's Sake finished the Labor Day family re­ I. Honest to God tre·at at Maryfarm, Newburgh, and 1. One of the slogans it was too late to . write about it. Now it is ·hard to write without of the Middle Ages boasting about it. We are the only was Catholic retreat house in the Unit­ "Honest to God." ed States where Mother and Fa­ 2. We have ceased to be ther and all the children can come "Honest to God." and camp out with us for a few 3. We think more days to partake of refreshment for about ourselves body and soul. than we do Over the Labor Day retreat there about God. were twenty-two children and 4. We have ceased to be eleven sets of parents. Some fami­ lies had left a child or two at home God-centered or with relatives. Some brought and have become 'fRIAL two or three or :five. There were self-centered. MOTI ST. three babies around :five- months II. American Founders THE old. They were easy to care for, 1. The founders of America These cool grey October days There was no one else from The since they stayed in their cribs and are gradually but forcefully sweep- Catholic Worker with Bob Ludlow were quite content to be left alone. came to America ing us 'to the chilling realization when he was arrested last month The hardest t o cai'e for were the to serve God that winter is swiftly moving in on in front of the Washington Irving two-year-old ones, who could not the way they thought us. And when winter hits the stove High School. He was picketing understand why at arhitrary times God wants to be served. heated fiats of Mott street there is with thirteen others of the Peace- their mothers answered a bell and 2. How God much wailing and gnashing of makers' group at noon on a Satur- rushed away, regardless of their :w; teeth. At this moment a small day, and since they had picketed very important needs which they ~~L~ jn many times pefore during the felt could be satisfied by none but CO\lrle of the' month, they did not the mother. Row ...... ,...... _:EIUl..Alr:aL• :.1.- Qt ~ne. J~ PllrcelU ~ a a. Berman ln4 Joe ate h'\lfftin.i the 1 very good substltu e fbr mtt is still taught around the kitchen and dining­ worst and nothing happened; then all of them, but the two-years-olds in American schools. room, preparing the soup and set­ it had become a r outim1 affair-, two did not appreciate that. They were 4. Thinking of time ting up the table. While all this hours of slow steady walking up not to be reasoned with. At the in terms of money prepiu:ation is going on the radio and down and around with a picket risk of being untheological, I'd say is at the base in the kitchen blares out the dull sign around your neck or on a that the four -year-olds bad of the thinking Boston - Cleveland world series stick, to tell what it was all about, achieved the use of reason. They of our business men. game which to all appearance. is and some of them with lea11.ets to I1 were very well behaved, indeed. !5. We put in our coins .p. very happy diversion for the give out. I am tempted to write only of kitchen help and the men in the Within twenty minutes from the the children: how they slept in the "In God we trust" line. but persist .in thinking time they started a patrol wagon long barn which housed all the Labor Day found us running had driven up and the fourteen, in- child1·en and the mothers of the that everybody else around the neighborhood in a mad eluding three women, were ax- young babies, except a few older ought to pay cash. frenzy seeking · a doctor for J oe rested and driven away to the Po- youngsters who went to a neighbor­ Ill. Cardinal Gasquet Davin who had suddenly taken lice Station on 22nd street, brought ing farm for the long week-end. 1. Cardinal Gasquet seriously ill. Joe is in his seventies before the sergeant and then pu How they ate outside at a long was an English and has been performing fine work in cells for the rest of the after- table; how they built a little shrine in our dining r oom waiting on noon and evening. Because it was to Our Lady under a wild cherry Benedictine. table. But no doctor available dur­ Saturday afternoon and no trouble tree. How they drew pictures, 2. He was a student ing the holiday and we adminis­ had been expected it was bard to some of them very strange, indeed, of that period tereq aspirins and fruit juices in get a lawyer. So Bob, with the and not only had an outdoor ex­ of English history hopes of brlnging down tile fevru: rest, spent the day with nothing to hibit, but brought them in proces­ that preceded but with no success. We hastily eat. lsion to the chapel to give them to the Reformation. scanned one of those quarter paper The charge was disturbing the God, in exchange for a blessing. (Continued on page 7) (Continued on page 2) (Continued on page 7) (Continued on page 2J

'fhe ~ State . and the Christian Secularism ' rs. Communism By ROBERT LUDL OW For all who have eyes to see,• blight om heritage of Christian The State, as we know it in his­ people to be of necessity to be talk- the issue is clearer than ever be- cultul'e." They would have us tory, as we have it with us foday, ing about the State. And then th.$!Y fore. This coming war is to be know that its diabolical influence is a type of organized society. It will submit willingly (or grudging- fought not between Christianity has penetr ated every phase of our is centralized, nationalist, bureau­ ly) to the State as the embodiment and Communism, not between life: the individual. fB.JlillY, educa- cratic. To be opposed to the State of Caesar to whom they are called Christ and Anti-Christ, but simply tion, labor , politics, international does not mean, of necessity, that on to render those things that be· between Secularism and Com- relations. Nothing remains un- one is opposed to organized society. long to him. What is overlooked in munism, It had finally to come to touched. It was good to see the Or ganization and Statehood are this is that it is within the province this. There is no lasting honor Catholic Students Mission Crusade not synonymous terms. Christian of the people to make o.r to unmake among thieves. The devil has at Convention at Notre Dame in Au- anarchists are not opposed to or­ Caesar. Because Caesar does ~ot war last caught up with the devil. gCust dam.n S e cul a1~~pm rather than ganized society nor are many other obtain his authority directly from Satan is casting out devils by ommumsm as ublic Enemy types of anarchists. · A country God. It is the' people who have ''If the war system is to continue, Beelzebub the prince of devils. No. L" The axe must be laid to whlch does not have a centralized authority directly from God anl then let us renounce our religion His kingdom is of this world, and the evil root. It is not enough to governing body but has regional 01· they may delegate that authority to . . . ' how clearly it is a kingdom di- pluck the evil fruit. local organization cannot properly representatives and in that way call it the rehgion of force and Ivided against itself. Now which Let us not delude ourselves fur ­ be spoken of as a State. Indeed give rise t o some form of gover- let someone else take the sacred side shall we Cathobcs choose? ther. Our army is "Seculiu:ism Stateless societies have existed in nance or to the State. But if any name of Christ and develop a re- The lesser devil? Enthroned" even more than our the past

Page Tteo THE CATHOLIC WORKER October, 1948 YoL ·xv. No. 7 October, 1948 the next bed to Joe had an infec­ tion in the prostate gland and On Pilgrimage· kept up a steady howl of pain. A (Continued from page 1) senile patient across from Joe was .cmioucrflbWORKER They brought pretty .atones, too, thia wint:r. we need to do thln&s ll!c&n;rin1 on • furious filht with a and fruits, and leaves and bunches to the inside ol the house in the playful attendant, he was spitting, Pa•lldle41 HeaWJ le,W.bft t. 1--. Bl·•••Ual7 lal7•A11&'11at of flowers. One baby ate half its way of puttin1 up wall board and curllnl and throwinf things at the (Member ef Cath.lle Preu Auoclatien) bo\lquet before reachin1 the altar. buying coal. Our family only attendant. A female nurse at· OaGAN 01'_TD CATHOLIC woiutza MOVEMENT Of the picnic which we all shared amounts to a dozen or fifteen pea- tempted to pacify the old man by PETER MAURIN, Founder witti the children on the last day ple now, but we never know who is offerin1 him a piece of candy but A_.ociate EditorS1 and to which neighbors came from _going to walk up the road, and he greeted this offer by ,frabbing a · nearby farm and ·from the town pay a call which lasts anywhere the nurse by the hand and trying JACK ENGLISH, IRENE NAUGHTON, ROBE'RT LUDLOW, TOM SULLIVAN of Newburgh. from a week to six months. (Some to yank her into bed with him. Managing Uitor and Publi•her: DOROTHY DAV Julia says next year the _girls stay for ever.) We have- sent out Aft~r one hour in that hospital we JU Mott si., New Yerll CiQ'-lS who helped her must come a few our appeal from New York and we found the aubw\y supper hour Telepllome: ~Anal 1-..91 days early to learn a few fW\da- .are hoping enough comes in to rush to appe~ quite tame com- mentals about the care of babies, take care of our farm bills, too. pared to the hospital ward. SubllCl'lptlon, United States, 2.5c Ynrly. Canada and l'oretin. 30c Yearly such as pinninf diapers and cut- Makin&' Ends l\:leet JSenry Wallace . •ubscrlptlon rate ol one cent per copy plus postage applle1 to bundle• of - lwndred or more cop!a each month for one year to be directed to one addrea ~ing up food, not to speak of sing- Everyohe always asks whether Into eac~ life a ll~e ram must mg sono, tel_llng stories, arriinging the farm is self-sustaining. It is fall and this morninc ~t came down Beentered as second class matter Au&IJ.Sl 10, 1939, at the Post Ottce dances and little plays. A mother one of those questions which al- in ~uckets in the awse of a very of New York. N. Y., Under the Act of March I, 11'19 has to be all these t.¥ngs: singer, ways come up when you talk about serious letter from. a dear reader. artist, sculptor, story-teller. dancer, farming. How hard it is to explain wh~ .asked my opinia and do not try te bread line. .rust this morning as (Continued on page 3) · h climb out-will ha~e their infants I came- from 7 o'clock Mass in Mary, and they are three weeks old. There is an old Josep in a dqrmito,ry with the.nr. The the city counted the men from Statemen~ ot th~ ownership, man- · t t f 1 agement, Circulat10n, etc., required in the house, seventy-three, and he is lying in bed, J\15 ou o mothers of the older ones will be Canal Street up to the house, and by the Act ot Concress of A~t the hospital, recovering from pneumonia. He is one of our separated eptirely from the rest there were at that time one bun- 24, 1912, as amended by the Acts of -of their brood. Then ~ere can be dred-and-five on the street wait- ff:t~c~h; • ~~~ke:,nd jb~~ 1!~6i;t~~ best workers, and he has served us all at meals these last few silence, indeed. . inf and 8.fty inside the coffee room ly at New York, :If. Y., tor Oct. 1, years with a courtesy and grace that brings to mind the fact Fr. Schott, with whom I talked having their breakfast. Slim has 1948, State of New York, N. Y.. "<1ether (living in somewhat of in Harrisburg this month, who ar- ~n ,"on the line" serving the County of New York, N. Y:·· ;;is: that We are all Sons Of God t"b c nf f th . Before me, a notary public rn and h. W t ranges ana. co erences or e men year m and year out, and al-. for the State and county aforesaid, a squalor it is true) but destined to great t mgs.1 .e_may no diocese, said that on their days of though he calls me "Fuhrer-ess" personally appeared Thomas Sulli- look it, but our Father i~ many times a millionaire and a recollection they have what they he is the big boss of the line. He van, "'.ho, having be_en duly sworn great King so we have confidence that this, our usual fall ap- call a Cana silence, where the hus· is beginning to talk of a vacation, rb~trg~tfs trh;i~us~~:a~e_;1~~ . k ill bands' and wives talk only to each "and not on the farm either, to the Catholic Worker and thit the peal, will reach you, our brot}\ers, and f or H IS sa e you w -other, but to no other families. help bring the crops in." following is, to the b~ of his k:nowl- help keep this household going. Five hundred a day coming Then they find they have not been He is thinking of a long sleep edge and ·bel;iet, a true statement of . . . . the ~wnership, management (and i1 in for the morning and evening meal, and fifty in the imrne- really. WJring to ea~ o~er for a m the mommg and a letsurely a daily, weekly, semiweekly or tri- ate family who look to us for all their needs. And two long time, but to their children or breakfast, unrushed by the de- weekly newspaper, the circulation), di about their children. mands of two hnndred or 50 guests. etc., of the aforesaid publication for . th t feed y - d ilk for them and h hin . · the date shown in the above caption more t my mou s . o . es, we nee m , T ere are many t gs we will Maybe the farm would meet ex- required by the act of Augu t 24• ice. Layettes have been supplied by the St. Gerard Guild do ditferently next year, and we penses if we would limit our fam- 1912, as amended by the ac~s of (diapers are $2.50 a dozen). hope the parents will send us sug- ily, and think of it in terms of a ~arch 3, 1933, and July 2, 1946 fsec- gestions as to what to do. Mr. family~ized farm. There was never n~~s)537pr~~l Lawfu and _Regulaf Up at the farm we have had retreats all summer and enough Rudzic.k, who came not once but such a family as ours. Once when this form, to wit~ e revene 0 have been able to pay to help those who could not. And food twice during the summer with his the board of health wu objecting 1. That the names and addresses has been raised to help not only the farm but Mott Street. . flve t;bilbydren. wife.cha8Dcl mother-la- to oar lilleti, we talked to thetr :~it~ :t~~=~= . • , 1aw, ts now a rter member representa ves about the house- Publisher Dorothy Day 115 M 0 ti The tractor has had to d o t h e P1 oug hin g and J °hn Filliger s of our retreat house, and I am sure : hold as being a family. "We an Street! New Yo;k City 13, N. Y. beloved horses have ·been suffering from bad feet all spring can help us a lot with his ideas. quite ready to regard the people Ass1Stant Editors. Jack English, H h d thre t fs "th li · · th h ( 1rene Naughton, Robert Ludlow and summer. "Let's give them a bag of oats and tell them e as ma e ere rea Wl us, vmg m e ouse only about Thomas Sullivan, 115 M 0 tt st N ' and, while he would have found it sixty or so) as a family, but the York City 13, N. Y. ' ew ... to go," Tom says. "He that does not work, neither let him more enjoyable I am sure to go breadline is the public." Managing Editor, Dorothy Day. 11~ eat." He is putting the thing as the employer of men does, away alone by himself, he wanted Quite a few of the public creep Mott ~t. . New York City 13, N . Y. •t d l 'k · k b t · t N h 1 ho t . . . . in Business manager, Thomas Sulli- and i soun s l ea JO e u is no . o one as scrup es a u to share things with his fanuly. · van, 115 Mott street New York City turning off a man. But everyone hates to get rid of a horse His wife could not get away and he Marriace 13, N . Y. ' 2 that has outlived his usefulness. would not go without her. This month Tony de Falco, our · That the_ owi:er is: owned - s•·• . by a corporation, rts namen has _any interest dire~t or "Who among the faithful is them? How are they to believe senu-pnva e atholic hospital turned to the pass desk and were rndrrect m the said stock, bonds or where he was tossed into a bed and handed a card to the ward in which other securities than as so stated· by silent concerning Christ? Think in the Lord until they listen to Him? And how can they listen forgotten for twenty-four hours Joe was P.laced. We found Joe him. you that we, standing here, whe th d ·d d to hi J 5. · That the average number of without a preacher to listen to"! n ey ecr e s P oe over smiling and clalming to be feeling copies of eac:}i issue of this publica- alone announce Christ, and )'.OU (x 14 Rom.) Therefore the to Bellevue hospital. a lot better After we surveyed the tioI? sold or Cl.ist_ributed, through the do not announce him? How is it whole Church preaches Christ, Bellevue Hospital situation we found it diflicult to mails or otherwise, to paid subscrib- that people come to us, people and the heavens announce His As soon as we were permitted to understand how he could recover ers . during the twelve months pre- whom we have never seen, righteousness, because all the visit we grabbed a Third Avenue in that atmosphere. HU bed was in (~g~~r!!~o~h'tiwi:.e~'::t::d t~m wanting to be Christians? We faithful are the heavens, all bus and rode up to th(l city hospi· a corridor amidst seven other beds. daily, weekly, semiweekly, &nd tri- ~al. We purchased a half pint of The corridor was noisy due to the weekly newspapers only.) . have never known them, we who care to win for God such THOMAS SUI.LIVAN have never preached to them. as have not yet believed, and ice-cream across from the hospital continual stream of visitors and Sworn to and subscribed before . Can they possibly have believed do this out of charity." st: and then raced over to join a line every few minutes an attendant me this 29th day of September, 1948. without any announcing to Augustine. of people who were also sweating would push through. a moaning pa- (Seal) Americus C. Stabile. out a pass to visit the patients. tient in a wheelchair. The man in My commission expires March 30, 1949. . ' T8:E CATHOLIC WORKER Mott Street ~ - (Continued from page 2) ·From· the·. M Ql·1 Bag . going to devot e too much. space In from us befor e. The necessary - haggling over a ch.oice of the four phone call was put thr ougb and men competing for office. To me our man was on the job the next War and Peace +and stones.--but with the most .. men of bu~ ness and financiers." Trum_an, Dewey and Thurmond day. T wo weeks later our friend stupendously costly apparatus the May the Lord be with the Catholic symbolize mediocrity and their re- arrived in town to pay us a visit St. Procopius Abbey world ha!. ever known. The Jap- Worker and bless its efforts and spective political ·parties' aspira- and r epay the money he had bor- Lisle, Ill. ilD ese hate the Russians, we are give it strength and courage to go tions. Henry Wallace is the only r owed from us. After expressing August 24• 1948 told. The Americans hate tlle ahead undismayed and to pene- one that I consider to hav~ any his thanks and his supreme con- My Dear FrieJtds, Japanese. The Fr ench hate the trale to all the ends of the wor ld recognizable amount of integrity. tentment with his n ew job h e Germam, th.e Germans, to com- with its spirit, teachings, philoso- :Mr. Wallace will also be extremely really opened our ears by inf orm- Many thanks for the two copies plete thP. circle, bate the · Rus- phy. May it love our dear Lor d concerned over the welfare of ing us that he is now taking in- of the Catholic Worker. I was so sians. Personally, I don't believe ever more and go with Him even other countries as well as the wel- structions to become a Catholic. delighted to read its Reasons Why half of th.ese thin~s . . But what- to the Mount Calvary! By dying 15 fare of our country whenever in- Rosary R;n.....• s w e Shon 1d Not Register and Fa- ever elsef th true, it lS true that thus, the Catho lic W orker will live ternational problems are faced. A fast talking salesman rushed none o ese nations can fight forever! Visitors into the house one late afternoon, ther Casey's, the Pacifist Priest's one another today without the Very sincer ely yours, Yesterday a constant reader of ripped open a jewelry box and dis- letter . My soul rejoices over yow· most enormous expense for guns ow-s, Carl Sandburg, the writer, played several rings. Immediate- truly Christian courage and forti- and airplanes and poisons. How Fr. Chry;;ostom Tasasevitch, OSB .. . . can these thing$ ·be paid :for un- paid us a visit. We had a nice chat ly launching into his spiel, "these t ude and smgs tlle Magnifica. t_out I less ban. kers and financiers put up! with Mr. Sandburg and we are are rosazy rings, something abso- of the d. bundan• .c e o f 'h' e .spint u al the. money? . An. d in a world ruled Land hop~ng he will drop in some Friday luteJy new on the market. . Now I • • night and give us a talk. Since the want to give you people the first JO Y ansrag m it on readmg your by money it is self-evident that Dear Friends: 1 Friday night lectures are well un- opportunity to break this sfory to truly Chr istian.paper, the only one such expense would not be in- der way, Miss Day having given the world. Up to a short time ago o:C its kind in these horrible times ~urr~d unless s?,meo~e was find- Very frequently, as I drive past the first talk last Friday night, Oc- I devoted my life to designing orna- of "civilized" savagery and "civil- mg it pr ofitable. the many abandoned, empty farms t ober 9th. Other visitors to this mental jewelry until I met a man I ized" and scientific mutual exterm- ~d ahain the great Eric Gill around here, I can't help but wish city were Mr. and Mrs. John Cog- during a plane ftight across coun- . · . writes: " It seems to me true to that some persons inter ested in the ley and family as they passed try. He gave me to understand that mation by means of modetn war- ·say that we Christians are more Rw·al Movement would buy them through on their way to Switzer- I was simply wasting my life by fare, No clvi.J.ized nor Christian to blame than anyone else in the and begin to fatm them. land. John is to complete a course designing ornamental jewelry and voice is raised in a strong protest Iwor~d-both individually and col- Recently, instead of being visit­ of studies at the University i>f suggested that I would be con- against this hellish affair save tlle lectively-for present state of af- ors, we have been the "visited." Fribourg. .John and Theodora Cog- tributing more to the world of . . · lfairs: peace is the tranquillity of Some of my married sisters and ley are former members of the Catholicism if I designed and voice of the Catholic Worker . Lor d, order. Is it not the special mis- theh· husbands came t o spend a few Chicago Catholic Worker group manufactured cosary rings. Just what a joy it is for a Christian sion of Christians to promote weeks with us. At the time, my and for the past two years John think of the angle you could play hea1:t longing for peace to hear this peace and the char ity between father and I were concerned with along with James O'Gara have up in your story, fifteen thousand noble, sweet, courageous fearless men upon which alone peace can trying to get the haying done, and edited the Catholic Student pub- feet above sea level this wonder- and truly Christian voice ~s though be built?. A~d yet it might be said taking care of our crops. This !ication, TODAY (638 Deming ful idea was conceived. Now don't . ' . that Christians and, in a special month has been an extremely busy Place, Chicago, Ill). James O'Gara you think this is a gigantic idea? the voice of our dear Lord Hunself. way, Christian ministers (of all one. Living on a farm seems to is still editing that publication and These rings are not only ornamen- Hatred, war, mutual exterrnina- denominations) have been the leav~ no time for the usual enter­ ! recommend that paper to all our tal but useful too and at the same. tion is the most hellish affair here forem o st recruiting sargents. tainments, such as movies, dances, r eaders. time you can prove to the world on earth. Factories are running, They have been the first to be de- etc. I have to be up at !5 :00 a.m., Bea~s you are a Catholic!" After twenty business is flourishing, farmers are ceived by the plausible propa- in order to star t the fire in the During the past month, I have minutes we got our word in and urged. to produce the ~aximum , ganda of politicians and the mas- kitchen stove (we burn wood), and been poking my nose into several informed tlle man that we wouldn't men are conscripted, chemical lab- ters of politicians, then men of from that moment until 10 'or 11 books which fascinated me no end. be interested in advertising his oratories are overcrowded with sci- business and financiers. Who bas at night I keep discovering more Among them was Thomas Merton's rings. There was an instant change entific workers, scientists are highly not heard the sermons of . army work to do, instead of less. Our autobiography, "The Seven Story ln the man and from a smiling paid for their inventions ... and all cbapl;iins? Who. does not remem- garden stuff is at the point where Mountain" a book which I found smooth .talking salesman he became this for the purpose of extenninat- ber the ways of vicars' wives dur- it needs continual care. Practically difficult to lay down. I approved quite indignant and took on a pers- ing another nation! As soon as there ing the war of 1914-1918? And all the things we planted are doing hearUy of a comment that a young cuted tone. He placed his rings back is no mc.men~ prospect of war, since the war: Ha.s it yet become well. Our friend (?l the woodchuck writer friend of ours made con- in their case and stormed that this there at once depression sets in- notorious that Christian ministers bas been munching on the beans cerning that book. "After reading was the same atroclo111 cooperation farmers are paid for destroying the are in the front rank of those who at night, and so they look some­ Merton's autobiography I feel fool- that be had been receiving from products of their land, their pigs, work for peace? But it not only what frayed. Besides that, many ish at the thought of continuing to other publiations that sbou.ld be their live-stock, though people are the Christian minlsters who ap- of our potatoes rotted in the wet write." Another book that I found iDterest~ in furtherina his ttems. pear to promote and praise war- weather. On the other band, the extremely interutina was that of P.S. though they are more conspicuous com has been growing madly, the "Saint 14aqant of Cortona" by We have just received a card to ~~ by reason of their public position. pea vines are heavy with hangin1 Francois Mauriac. This is a very the ellect that ~ohn and Elizabeth ~ The laify, ·the Christian Wty, and pods, the tomato plants are alrea~ disturbing biography of a 13th cen- (formerly Cuda) Van Elli have + especially the Chnstlan press, the loaded with healthy green fruit, tury sinner who Jlung herself from moYed from the Milwaukee Catbo- newspapers, are notorious war- and the onions give promise of a life of sin in a headlong plunge lie Work.er group to a farm up ln mongers. Like the young man in much onion soup next winter. We into a life of mortifications that McKean, Pa. Our very best wishes the gospel, they turn away sor- uncovered our hive of bee1 the terrifies one limply to read about. and prayers 10 to thl9 tine. young rowful from all talk of peace- other day to look for the queen This is one of the few books that couple and we hope to IOOn have because they have great posses- cell11, and noticed that the bees wiII aid you ln understanding just a letter from them in the next sions. They are men of business filled and capped several of the what the saints were driving at. issue of the paper relating their ~· , first an:I Christian after. They are combs already. · If you are interested in simple life on the land. ~ imperialists, they believe ln em- After we finished the haylng- spiritua.l diet of milk and not -T. SULLIVAN pire, and foreign possessions, and the hay was only fair this year- strong meat don't bother to read foreign trade and investments, in my f.ather .returned to cutting stone abou-t St. M argare t b ecause you starvfug in ever so many parts of exactly the lame way as their In the quarry. I'm staying here to will only end up by clalming that APPEALS the world. What a civilization non-Christian fellows. We accuse do · the cultivating, weeding, etc. she bel onged in a lunatic asylum. this is! But s0me people must be the Russi:ms of denying G<>d • . . I'm also getting ready to start the Spiritual Problem Hans Oppermann delighting in this kind of civiliza- but who have been more con- construction of a poultry house. A neatly dressed man of fifty or 20 a Sobde Han Nr. 178 tion, else it would not be thriving. spicuously ungodly than the Chris- Our plans for the future are not so walked into the office last month Krs. Hildenshein1-Marienbur1 Those people are not the masses of tians? :uid who have been more fully worked out yet, but, as we and asked to be put up for awhile. (British Zone) the peopl~e not the Russian bloodthU:Sty?. How can th~ mon- envision it, about two more years Aft.er a couple of days in the house people; nor are they the American strous situation be explamed? I will be required to make prepara- he told me his story. It wasn't a Familie Wilhelm Engemann people, nor the Chinese people, nor think th~re is only one char_itable tions for our withdrawal from the· very unusual story around these Gehrber g 19 the Greek people, nor any other explanation. It is due to ignor- city completely. We must still do parts, J?eriodic drunks and final Essen 1 Brikr, Rheinland people in the world. Those people ance, an ignorance fostered by some repair work on the house fut eviction by wife and family. At the British Zone, Germany (if people and not the savage beasts our traditions--Uiiditions which up the barn, acquire some llve· conclusion of his story he finally they can be called) are the follow- keep us ~tirely out of touch with stock, etc. We hope to accomplish explained that the entire problem Frau Maria Hau era of Mammon, the money barons, the re?-11bes of the ~odem 'fOrld. s?me of these tasks during vaca· rested on a spiritual basis. I was Wendelstr. 15 the adorers of the god of riches. We still _fo.ndly believe that. wars tions. And it is possible that, dur- startled by such a rare twist from Wadgassen, Saar At the altar of this god of theirs are patri o ti ~ , control the very life- Tb e~e is no thing b1.1;t the darkness BETH UNE business as much as in big ones. blood of the people and no one outside-and the ram. A world of

1 GAUCHA T • .For the little shopkeeper wants to dares ·breathe against their good- contrast between this valley of COTTON be a big shopkeeper and the little will." farms and the glaring city of steel i PAULSON business envies big business. How- As far as one can see and and concrete to which this letter is . FATHER CATICH ever much it may appear that ra- judge, the Catholic Work er alone going. cial hatreds are the cause of war "dares breather agatnst their good- Sincerily, in Christ, i,\ Free Catalog of Cltristmas Giff Saggesfioa$ they are not the r eal cause. Fo; will" in this world controlled by James Kenney - ~ we must remember that modem politicians, lay and clerical, and R. F. D. 1 wars are not fought with sticks ''the masters of politJ<;i~f\s'! tpe Great Bend, Pa. 1 ':· .,, Page Fonr . ' THE CAT B U L l C W 0 a·K RR ' . October, 1948 T:he Road ·to Jericho A. Short Story By LA WREN CE K~LL Y •• No, that's not the 1'ght story!.+or aqother since we got on-he's .+around again and goes over to the •• That's the \vrong story, like al- telling him about how he used to bum. ·CULT most all the others. The thing ·only work in a haberda5hery shop in He bends' over a·nd shakes him. happens about three . years ago Vienna. Then Christy says: The bum look$ at Zengler .and tries and' today you hear everything but "Just like Truman, eh?" to say something but only dribbles , 1 the truth. Sure, Zengler and I had Now, I ask you, isn't that some all over himself. He starts to raise •.. . a fight. That part's right enough. hell of a thing to say.? I'm trying that dirty sleeve again• but Zengler And he was a Communist. That's all the while to catch Christy's. pull,s his arm away. •• CULTI the truth too. eye to shut him up,. but he 'keeps All this time. Christy is looking That's one thing I have to hand talking all the way from the sta- at me, wanting tq know what I'm him. He's honest about it anyhow. tion until we're standing on the going to do, I guess. Then we Zengler were the big .attraction, guy wouldn't go to more trouble Whatever else I got_against him I street. hear Zengler's voice. He don't even and him leaving put an end to the for his own. brother. But I'm wise have to admit that. He was a Then zengler asks Christy to turn around. Just says: show. I mention to Christy about to him. I remember what it says Commy, a· Party member. Card excuse him a ·minute and he reach- "Give me a hand. We'll see if Ihow . late we are now. I ask him in that paper the wife gets, about and all. And anybody wasn't sure es into his pocket and fiddles he ca·n walk." whether we're working for the Commies being willing to do or say could ask "him and .they'd s_oon around till he pulls out a piece of union or the Red Cross. He don't anything if it means they can get find out. Iyellow paper with the address of 1 cianknfeel Christy still watching say a thing. Just keeps watching something out of it. But what is me. ow he won't go over. alone. the smoke cud up from his b. utt. there to get out of this bum. I But ·rum being a -Communist this place we're going to. I can I wait for just a little bit, and then · wasn't really what the fight was see Zengler's not too familiar with we both go over. I know I really I almost feel- like heaving with drop the whole thing. Like I S&id about. He's a good electrician, this part of town because there don't want a fight here or anywhere the smell of the bum so stroi;ig before I'm no guy for figuring out Zengler is, and he's done plenty we are on the corner of Canal and else, so l stai:t to giv-:! him a hand. there in the doorway. I step onto the reasons. Still and all-. for the union, as Red as he is and the Bowery and he don't know for 1 the sidewalk and look down toward Well, I look up and there's I never re f· used to a d mit. it. . A n d sure which way Bleecker Street andfigure nobody we both really are, meansa little nothingexcited Bleecker Street, half expecti'ng the Zengler slipping the Doc some though I don't have no use for is. Well, now, I know where -by it. Just a little while keeping guy we were supposed ~o meet to. money. Then he speaks to Christy: Commies still it wasn't exactly Bleecker Street is all right, and busy, and I'll cool off and forget it. come up ~he block looking for us. "The Doc will take care of it. that. What· I mean is it wasn't all I could have jus~ started walking The bum.is looking at' the .three Then Christy speaks: We'll come down again tomorrow because of that. toward it, leading the parade,' you of us and trying to talk some more. "It's a strange thing, Al, I mean 1 for that other business. It's too It was something hapQened one might say. But I let Zengler figure But, li!ce before, his head just rolls Zengler stopping like that for this Ilate now." day down on Canal Street that it out. from side to side, and he just keeps guy." · Going up toward the El I find was the start of it. I really can't '.!.It's down this way," he says, spitting ·au ov.er his chin. When' "What's so strange about it," I myself trying to,figure it out again say just what come between us, and we start west along Canal, we first try to give him a hand he say, "Maybe he knows the guy." Zengler, a Co.mmunist, who cares "°" even now. Every time I look ·bac·k and that's whc n we see the bum. acts like he thinks w.e'i:e trying to I really don't believe that, about about nothing or nobody except his I can remember plain as day just roll him, because he gets off a few Zengler knowing this bum. Neither crazy revolution, he stops because what happened but I can't lay my growls and moves his arm out of does Christy. I can tell the way he sees this bum is hurt. Just a pnger on it exactly. I know it had the way when I go to grab hold he answers. bum like you see hundreds of to do with what happened that day. of it. "Maybe. Anyway that's not what every day down this part of town. ~~~~~~~~ Zengler tells us to move back, I mean. I mean him-a Commy I'm as sorry f or these guys as he and this crowd standing around. f Wh But I'm starting in the middle and that he thinks it would be better if and all •like he is-I wean it seems ifs. Y shouldn't I be? But hell, that won't do. Here's the whole one of us carried him. I'm going like we might've had him wrong. you stopped and bothered every- thing from the -beginning. to ask him just where he figures on I wonder why he stopped like he time you saw one you'd be at it carrying the guy, but I decided to did, Al. Why he got so sore be- all year. Two of the boys had some wage shut up. The less we say to each cause we didn't want to stop." I almost begin to wonder why trouble the day before ·on a wiring other the sooner that other thing "Who didn't want to stop," I cut he didn't call the bum "Comrade" job in some warehouse down on will be 0. K . in, "What the hell's the idea of like he calls all of us when he gets Bleecker Street. So, as usual, It doesn't look like much of a that crack. We wanted to stop just up at the meetings to shoot his Zengler's the guy that goes to han­ job at all to lift the bum. He isn't as much as him but we came here mouth off. "My comrades" he says dle it. Well, at that time it's not very tall and his arms are as thin to done one thing and I figure let's like we were' all members of the like now. The war's just over and everybody's chummy with every­ as a little kid's. I put my handker- get it done first and then-." party, 'like he loved us all like body else and none of the papers chief on ·the gash and hold it there "0.K., Al, O.K.," he says, "don't brothers. Damn hypocrite. Who's as Zengler slides his arms under get a-0re. I'm just saying ft sure he trying to kid? "Comrades!" are blasting the Commies like you :l'fow right away you want to see today. him to lift him up. Tbat's when we seems queer him going to ail this That's just a lousy Commy trick. know what's so strange about see­ find out about his leg. trouble just for some old bum. Ju'st °like stopping for this bum la But tm plenty wise to them be­ ing a ,bum along the Bowery. throw& hi1 head back and That'1 all I'm 1a1in1." a lousy Commy trick. eause this paper the wife brin11 Nothing, of l!ourse. That'I why we H~ home from Man every Sunday almost pass him by. He's just an­ makes a sound like he'1 1ar1llng, Christy and his stupid remarks. CHmbfnc the lteps on the Up- gives the whole scoop. And I often other bum, all hunched up in a and then he breaks loose and starts I try to explain it to him that its town aide I see Zengler pull out a used to wonder why the rest of the jewelry store doorway w\th one of squkming around, trying to roll something political maybe, Maybe handful of change, Big shot. He's papers don't come out and ·say his shoes off and his head buried over. Right !lWay we figure there's if the people in the crowd see a going to pay the carfare. Like what's what like this one does. in his folded arms. But just as we something else wrong with him Commy helping this guy out then hell he is. And I drop the money. About how the Reds are under­ pass by he looks up and we can besides that cut on his head. they'll get more votes come elec- in just ahead of him. mining the country: filtering into see a dirty gash above his right Zengler eases his arms Dut and tion time, like kissing babies or It's while we were riding up- key jobs; waiting till the time's eye. starts running his fingers gently as passing out cigars. town, I guess, that I figure out ripe for their big reyolution. Stuff It's still bleeding a bit and he he can over the bum's body, trying "But how would the crowd know how I'll let him have it when we like that. keeps lifting his arm and brushfng to locate the sore spot. And it he's a Communist," he says. get back. to headquarters. Why Anyhow, what I want to get against it with the sleeve of his must really be a· sore spot, because "Aw, shut up!" I tell him. His not? He called me a bastard. . didn't across is that nob~ dy 's kidding me filthy shirt to keep the blood from the same liquor. which can' deaden dumb remarks are beginning to he? He had no right calling me about the Reds. I'm plenty wise to trickling into his eyes. He's still the pain in that gash doesn't seem wear me · out and these nosey peo- that! them and this Zengler's no differ­ plenty stewed, which is a good to help this any. I bend close to ple passing by, staring. like we're ent from the rest, the way I figure thing in a way, because he prob­ him and ask him to point where it a circus act .or something. I begin it. So Christy Meehan and myself ably doesn'Lfeel much pain at all. hurts. He -just gives me that dumb, to wish I was anywhere else but decide there's no time like the Well, Zengler stops right away. watery-eyed look. here. CHRISTMAS CARDS present to show this guy who's We both keep walking for another I'm close enough for a good The bum starts to groan again. Price including envelopes running the show. He's the union few steps before we miss him.' We strong ·whiff of his breath-stale What a etlnking wreck. I wonder rep. of course but that don't stop look; around and he's standing back tobacco, rotting teeth and two-bit· why I ever open my mouth about Single Cards • • • - .08 us from being ·on hand to watch there waiting for us to come back. whiskey, and . on top of that the coming down here. And I wonder 25 " •• - - 1.50 out for the interests of the rest of Christy looks at his watch, and smell of vomit. He mu8t have about the bum too, every time I 50 " ' • • -- .• 2.25 the ·1ocal. tells him its 9 :4:5 and we're fifteen heaved up all over himself when he look at him. I take guesses about 100 " • - • • 3.50 We're kind of surprised when minutes late already. was lying there during the night. whether he's got a family and how 1000 " ••• - 30.00 he don't make any noise about us I suppose if I had to name the What ·a hell of a mess. I'm all for long he been like this and if he tagging along. But I remember on time it started I'd say right then going after a doctor. Besides, ever had a job. Things like that. Sample Set 1 One of the way to the El, thinking how it's and there. Zengler looks at Christy there's a crowd beginning to I even guess at his · name a few each design, 11 ca1·de _7 5 probably a show of friendship on for almost ten seconds in the fun­ gather. times. But it's hard •just to think his part to throw us off. Clever niest damn~ way. Poor Christy. For But just then he gurgles and things like that about someone like THE ST. LUKE SHOP these Commi~s. So I make up my once he don't know what to say. grabs hold of my arm tight. Zeng- him, lying there, curled up on the Collegeville,_ Minnesota mind to be just as smart as him It almost makes me laugh to see ler has a finger on the bum's right ground like some wounded mutt. I and I dummy up all the way down how nervous he gets with Zengler shin.. l;Ie rolls up the pants leg feel sorry for the guy but what the Carloe and Mary Katherine on the train. staring lit him. Zengler's going to and we see the bruise, <\bout four hell. It's not my fault is it? I Cotton But Christy thinks different, I say something to him but he inches long and a mean-looking didn't ask him to-aw what the guess, because he keeps yapping changes his mind and turns. around mixture of black and hlµe and dark hell! He's there in the doorway, about how he hopes Zengler isn't toward the doorway. red. Zengler figures it's broken. stinking drunk and his head opened He tells me to look in the bum's up. I'm here cold sober, good insulted that we want to tag along. I can sec he wants· to give the It's not we don't trust you, he tell; pocket for a bottle, because he fig- clothes and a job. That's that. Betty Clendenning's bum a ~and and I side with him, but we think the boys would ures a few more snots might kill I'm no guy for figuring out the CHRISTMAS CARDS Christy, seeing how we're late as the pain a bit. I run my hands reasons why. . be more widely represented-those it is,· and I tell Zengler how if through his coat, which is heaped I begin to wish Zengler would . Unpainted ar_e his very words-more widely he went around feeling sorry for Paintecl i·epresented if the three of us up in the other corner of the door- come back soon so we can get to every Bowery souse who fell down 12/$1.25 12/$1.75 went. It sounded almost like he way. Sure enough, in the inside that warehouse or back uptown­ was apologizing. a flight· of stairs; he'd be hitting pocket I come across a half pint of or any place away from here. It's Martin de Porres Farm the bottle soon himself. It's the But Zengler's a smart one. He some poison called "Palmetto"-'-70 funny how I keep thinking of the McKean, Pa. R.R.l just listens and nods his head and first thing I said to him since we· proof· and the color of spittoon bum though. I can even sort of smiles all the while Christy is left headquarters. I get the same water. There's just a bit of it left feel him in back of me, like I'd (Martin de Porres Farm is c1:azy loQk Christy got, only this yapping away. I keep · trying to and I don't have much trouble know it the.minute he wasn't there a new farming community time it don't seem so funny. Then think of something to say which pouring it down his throat. no more, even though I'm facing he says to me : begun during the last wouldn't make it seem so much "We can't move him," Zengler the other way. Damned funny month. John and Betty like we were all such good pals. To "You bastard!" says, ·"That's certain. You two feeling. j (Cuda) · Van Ells, both hear Christy talk you think Zeng­ Just like that. Like he was say­ better wait here with him. I'll get Then I see Zengler coming dowl\ Catholic Workers are the ler was doing us a favor just to let ing "good morning" or something. a doctor." And with that he walks the street with the Doc. He isn't ' directors of this new work us come along; · Well, you c;m imagine 4ow I back'. up the street in the direction talking. Just seems to be steadily I By this time we pull into Canal feel. I'm just standing there won­ of the El. looking down here as if he's -afraid a~d any orders for carcls Street, and Zengler is telling dering whether to start something Christy stands up, leans against the bum might run away before I will help this infant en­ Christy-he sort of ignores me right out on the street. But be­ the window and lights a butt. The the Doc and fiim get there. I 'deavor in its start.) because I don't say boo one way fore I can do anything he turns crowd b~gins breaking up as if - That damn Zengler. I swear, a .______,. The Pope to t~e Farmers [This address· by H. H . Pius XII ..gain-a truly religious spirit. Let .. and devastating wars, the soil has was given on 15th November, 1946 the fear of God, trust in God, a become in some regions desert-like, CULTURE to the ,Itallidered only edge. The blaz.ing plates and irons give The men who take little boys thoritative confirmation, once the biggest and quickest profits for Beside this, the land in many us an idea of Hell to work in place of men be- again repeated, of ·all they have the national exchequer . or the dis.tricts-qulte apart. fr9m repair­ In the heat kids of 14 or 15 are cause they are ·paid cheaper. thought and worked for.-Harold cheapest possible provisioning of ing the riwages oLwar-has need of working heavily, eight hours Robbins. .] the nation with the produce of the careful and• thoughtful preliminary a day. Some 40 or 45-year-old · It is always a special pleasure to soil, one might . be tempted from treat'-ent'" before any reform can workers· are killed Sy the heat THESE MEN ARE NOT SLAVES. us to welcome the representatives this point of view to sacrifice farm- be carried out in the conditions of and the hardness of the· job. A Man came. He was a worker, of the different callingi .whose ownership and the mutual relations In the coal or iron mine the work­ .a Son of workers. He worked varying ·activities go to make up of parties to a contract. Failing er feels he is an ANIMAL by twenty, years, with His own a nation's social and economic life; this, as experience- and history going into little holes, thou­ hands. , but we feel an. added ·satisfaction show, an improvised reform would sands of feet under the world's be no more than a demagogue's ex- surface. He said to the workers: "You are now as we greet in :You, dear sons, pedient, and hence not helpful but the blessed of my Father. the delegates of a nation-wide THESE MEN ARE SLAVES. God's kingdom is for you reagile embracing a great b~dy of useless ·and harmful-above all to- Of course we need them. We need only." - ' farmers who with their families day when mankind has to fear for coal and iron. We need the its dally bread. Many times in WHO WAS HE? actually till the soi), · whether in history the irresponsible claniour- baker who works while we are fields they own themselves or in sleeping. We need the post· He was a Man, a worker those they hold in trust under con- ings of agitators have made rural man to run on Sunday and He was poor, humble . populations slaves of a tyranny He was God tract with the owners. These are which at heart they shunned ·and · bring us the mail. We need "dear fields," the dulcia arva be- the bus driver to bring us He was Christ the Worker. loved by the gentle Virgin, the unconscious objects of exploitation. from the movies at night. We WHAT DID HE? Injustice Italian fields· extolle~ by Pliny for The injustice here appears all need every kind of worker. He came on the world to tell their life-giving perennial health- the greater inasmuch as the coun- They need us also because WE the workers "YOU are MY ftilness, their fertile ploughlands, tryman's way of life is founded are workers. sons." sunny hills, shady woods, the fruit· ing concerns to a greater or less the family and ls therefore And He told the rich fulness of their vines and olives, ·extent. 'Of this there are examples ~fo~! to nature. This injustice We are workers, we ~re slaves. "Yon will go to Hell, for you the fatness of their ftockl and enough-and by no means encour- finds its open expression in the kill your brothers and God herds. O fortunatos mimlum, cried aging ones-In the last century and clash between towns and country SLAVES WHY? punis.hes' for that." the great poet of the countryside, in our own. It I.a for you, accord· which is, alas, especially charac· Became WHAT BECAME OF HIM? Oh more than happy, did they i111ly, to show that such concern, terlstlc of our time. What is Jt.t We must work hard and much. - · know their bliss, Those tillers of precisely because of ita family underlying reason? We must spend our blood, He waa killed by the Capital- the soil! We should be loth to let character, does not exclude the Modem Town_ and our blood makes the lsts. this occasion pass without offering real advantages of other forms of Modern towns with their con· human pleasure of some HE CHOSE DISCIPLES you a message of cheer and en- concern and does avoid the disad- . couragement, the more so since. vantages. Show yourselves adapt- stant growth in size and then· ag- profiteera. They also were workers, glomeration of inhabitants are the Because fisht:rs, employees. We are well aware how much the able, alert and -active guardians of typical product of the tyranny ex• whole nation's moral recovery de- your native soil, using it always, ercised by the interests of big capi· After we have tilled the HE TOLD THEM pends on .a farming class with an· never exploiting - it. Show your- pockets of these men (l am assured social status and firm re- selves thoughtful and frugal men, tal over economic life and, what iJ "Go and tell the nations my more, over man himself. As was ashamed of calling them with word" this word) when there is a ligious foundations. men open to progress, who con- clearly shown by our glorious pre- They did. More. than other men; you llve fidently employ thej.r own and decessor Pius XI in his Quadra­ crisis we are hungry, our They still do. childien are hungry, and they in continual contact with nature; others' capital in so far as this is gesimo Anno, it happens only too go on to live and eat and have BUT durlng the years some people material contact, inasmuch as your good for their work and does not often that human needs, with their pleasure with our blood as thought, "We can profit of life is passed . in regions, still far endanger the future of the family. natural and objective 'importance, money. this." removed troll} the excess of an ar- Show yourselves equitable sellers no longer control economic life and tificial civilization, and is all di- (not greedy speculators at the peo- the employment of capital; on the THEY ARE SLAVES THEY AID rected towards bringing forth from pie's expense) 'and ready buyer& in contrary, capital with its acquisi- the little boy of 15 who works We ;;lso are disciples of this the depths of ~ the· soil, under. the the home market. tiveness determines What needs as hard as a 25-year old man. Man md they stole from their sun of the Heavenly Father, the Standards are to be satisfied, and fo what the Httle girl of 16 who is in friends, were untrue to their abundant wealth his hand has We are well aware that often degree; hence human labor-whose the factory under the will and families stored there; contact too in a pro- enough such standards are lacking. aim is the common good has ceased lust' of her boss (often seen in killed workers foundly social sense, inasmuch as However· upright the ,Intentions, to attract capital ·and to use it for Belgium and France for in­ put babies at work your families _form communities however honourable the actions on its own purposes; instead, capital stance) (boys and girls only 7 years not, merely for the consumption of which many a farm~r may pride moves labor and men hither. and were the victims of the new goods but also, and more ecpeci- himself, it is none the less true thither like so many pawns. Herods) ~ aliy, for the production of them. that nowadays a man needs great If even the townsman suffers by .lSSENTIAL BOOKS The non-disciples of the man saw Your life is rooted in the family firmness of principle and vigour of this unnatural state of things, still -deeply, widely, completely SO, in Will to hold out against the diaboli- more does it run counter to the Hilaire Belloc : an introduc­ this and thought: These men say, a way. that clings close to nature, cal temptation of easy profits-the inmost nature of the life of the tion to his spirit and his from this comes your economic way of ignoble speculation on one's countryma_n. For in spite of all work by Robt. Hamilton "Love each other," and do not "Be just," and ,are not. strength and your power of endur- living by the sweat of one's brow. difficulties the worker upon the $2.00 Why should we be jus·t and ance through times of crisis, your Often this lack of standards is land still stands for the natural Sacred! & Secular : six essays love one another? proven importance for the ,proper due iil part to the fault of parents order willed by God, which is that by Eric Gill ...... $2.75 These bad disciples had be­ development of law and order who put their children to wo.rk too man with his work ls to master trayed CHRIST. (public and private) throughout early and neglect their spiritual things, not matei;ial things to mas­ What Is Wrong With the the nation; and lastly the indispens- ti;aining and instruction; it may ter man. World by G. K. Chesterton able function you are called on to likewise be due to want of needful (Continued in next issue.) $1.00 We are Christian workers, We fry exercise as a source and bulwark schooling, and especially of the Flee to the Fields by Belloc, to come again in God's Will, of uncorrupted living, moral and needful vocational knowledge. McNabb; Jeff, Robbins, $2.00 in Christ's doctrine, we try to religous-as fostering the growth There is no more misleading preju­ be men as He was a Man. of men sound in mind and body for dice than the belief that the work­ APPEALS The Res_toi:atton of Property every walk in life, for Church an'd er on the .land does not need a Frau M. Knappe (21a) by Belloc ...... $2.00 Lord Christ, help us, poor workers. for State. serious and adequate education in Gruner Grund 37 Do We Agree? a debate be­ All the more. needful is it that order to pel'form in the course of Munster, Westfalen tween Chesterton and Shaw the essential elements of an au- the year his indefinitely varied Germany (British Zone) with Belloc in the chair thentic rural culture should be seasonal tasks. . $1.25 CHRISTMAS CARDS preserved for the nation: a simple, Sin Hedwig Thiel Mosaic of Man: distributist straightforward, hard-working way Sin, it is t.cue, has. made work on. 2 Rathenow;-Germany a William and Dorothy Gauchat the · land laborious, but sin did not handbook by Rev. F . Walsh of life; respect for~ftthority , above Mittelstr. 8 all for parental authority; love of bring it into the world. Before ( Soviet Zone) $ .25 Our Lady of the Wayside Farm Avon, Ohio country and loyalty to the tradi­ ever sin came, God had given man Gill's Autobiography and It tions that in the course of cen­ the earth to till, as the noblest and Herr Walter Rohse 15a · All Goes Togethe·r each 20 Auort•d Cards ...- :-: , • $2.00 turies have proved fruitful for most honorable of pusuits in the Am Koppisrain 7 $3.50 50 .. .. ••••••• $4.50 good; readiness to help one anoth­ natural order. Continuing the work Ave, Schmalkalden, Thuringer 100 " " ...... sa.oo er, not only within the Family but of Adam's sin, the actual sins of Germany, British Zone Order from Sample Sets .. ..•. •• , • , . • $ .50 between families, between house­ the whole of mankind have made the curse on the earth'. weigh more Familie . Paul Stein David Hennessy holds; lastly, the one thing failing All of these ea rtlo ha.ve been printed which, these other values would and more heavily. Stricken in turn Am Rosengarten 7g Statlers Cross Roads, West Va. by Berllner .t Lanfr;llJlo • lack foundation, lose their worth by all manner of plagues, floods, Koln-Brickendorf, Rheinland and sink into unchecked greed for upheavals, pestilential miasmas Germany u know the peculiar of pity, ideals, and now they are that position that is incompatible arises between the individual con­ felt it was her job to arouse the ·odors of our industrial system. Amazons, fiends, ruthless, etc. etc. with the Faith. I know of no doc- science and the State we must as­ conscie,nces of those who looked They are not sweet. I cannot begin to match the invec­ trine (l may be wrong in this) of sume that the burden of proof lies tive of the capitalist press. It is at her pictures, and since she was Chicago to Mobile the Churc.h whicl:. states the people with the State. And since we have better even than the Communist. the wife of a doctor and saw a I have smelled them in Bayonne, delegate their authority to shown that the national State of We have many a woman in poli­ must great deal of 'human suffering, she in Chicago, in Mobile, and they are the State-that a pure democracy its very nature is in· opposition to tics and in the trade union field had many a model for her work. the smell of death. I have also is immoral. Certainly there is no the Christian· concept of th e in this country who is just as hard, I have only seen reproductions of lived in a tenement where a rat defined dogma to this effect. brotherhood of man it hasn·t much a few of· her things, but I was died in the walls, and it was win­ bold, brazen and ruthless. Therefore it is quite within the of a leg to stand on. reminded so much of her this ter, and to breathe you had to Suffering sphere of a Catholic, writing on Church and Stale month when I visited Mary Frecon leave your windows open. You On the other hand, you have in Harrisburg, at her Martin de could not get the rat out, you such women as Mary Frecon, mak­ social q.uestions, to point ou~ why Nor has the Church any stake Porres House of Hospitality at could not locate it without tearing ing crab apple jelly in the little he considers. the St~t~ an evil and in this matter. Her life is inde­ 1017 N. Seventh street. down the house. It was a torture. kitchen of her house on Seventh to advocate its abolition by peace- Ipendent oi the State, she can exist It has been about ten years now, And all that evening as we walked street from the fruit "sent to her ful. means. To r.ecall to the p_eople ~ithout Jt; it confers nothing on maybe more, that Mary has worked through that slum district of Har­ by one of her sons, both of whom their forgotten nght of sovereignty. her for he• authority comes direct- there in Harrisburg combating the risburg there was the odor of dead have fruit farms. (She does not Civil Disobedience ly from God. Her children owe indifference oJ the whites to the rats, coming from windows and need to live on Seventh street.) From the Qµ-istian point of view obedience to Caesar in the things tragedy of the blacks. doors, from alleys and the holes Mary, nursing a diabetic, swollen, the question resolves itself to this that are Caesars but then her chil­ No use talking, aside from a in the sidewalk·. heavy with water, holding her up -whether or not the centralized, dren, together with all members of tiny few more privileged ones, the The night was soft and alive. at night so she could bi:eathe, nationalist and bureaucratic State the community, make Caesar and majority of the colored are the There was a velvety feeling in the bringing the priest to her, looking has and is an instrument for pro- can unmake him, they can recall the poor of this oountry. air. ·The children were playing and after her body and soul, materially rooting the Christian ideal of the sovereignty that comes directly to - Sunday Nite · dancing. Mothers nursed their and spiritually. Susie, burned by brotherhood of all men or whether them from God, they need not dele­ I arrived in Harrisburg one young. There was a hunger for a jealous rival, oozing pus from it has in fact proved to be destruc- gate it. Whenever the Church has Sunday evening last .month before beauty there, and it expressed it­ her infected shoulders cut by glass tive of that ideal. For it is legiti- been wooed by the State and has the weather had turned cold, and self in song and music and the from broken windows when she mate and good that the Christian succumbed it has ended in an it was a good time to be there, movements of the bodies of the tried to escape, nursed back to should seek to inform the temporal adulterous up.ion. In the end she because the night was alive with young. health of body and soul. Katie order with the spirit of the Gospels has always sued for divorce. The dark faces and bodies, sitting on Playground dying of cancer, tuberculosis and and to oppose hatever there is in price of allegiance has been too the steps of the ramshackle houses, Fo~ three days after that I syphilis, her body dung, now, in­ the world that militates against great. The -compromises she has nursing their babies, watching stayed and the neighborhood was deed, but once a thing of beauty, such a realization. We are con- been called upon to make bave their children, listening to the mu­ something else again. When we strung taut with life and pleasure cerned here with the practical been too damaging to her divine sic, the rhythm of tambourines, got up to go to Mass at the Cathe­ aJfd now overwhelmed with tor­ problem and it is aside from all mission. In vain has she sought a the clapping of hands, the singing dral which is the nearest Church rents of pain. theoretical justiftcatlons that may "Christian" government to which from the tabernacles, churches of and that ten blocks away, men Lu_cille Pearl, dying in an alley, be made to bolster State authority. she could in conscience unite her- the Lord, Pentecostal and Zion, on were going from the houses with flies and worms feasting on the 1 ·am cognizant of the arguments self. Always she has been dis­ every corner. paper bags of lunch, young men, open sores of her flesh, these wom­ from natw·al ethics and the general appointed-nothing has come of it. Slnz and Sway family men, women going out to en dying and yet alive today ill run of Catholic writers. But I am She has pursued her mission best Around the corner was a tent housework. Later on children were not convinced that these argu- precisely where she has had no with the flap open in the front, on their way to school. The street ments settle anything as far as the union with the State. Today she and on a platform was a beautiful had the week day aspect. None Cl)rlstian is concerned. For it is being flattered and wooed by the young light brown' girl, slim and sat out, none was idle save a few seems to me evident that in this United States (who find her a use­ graceful, swaying i. the music, little ones too young for school matter as in any other matter we ful bulwark against Communism) all dressed like a bride or an angel who played in the playground that have to ask ourselves whether such and in proportion as she succumbs in white satin - three men, well Mary built with her own hands a thing is of service or is a hin- so do her members assume the dressed, preaching at intervals and across the street, playing on the drance to the realization of Christ prevalent bourgeois characteristics saying nothing, punctuating every swings, the slide, the sandbox. in .our lives and In society It does of the American scene. We start p_hrase, every sentence, with Amen, The night before the street had not require an extensive reading in out to Christianize a pagan com­ Amen. And the music kept begin­ been for the humans. Now trucks history to convince anyone that na- munity, we end by pagani.zing our­ ni•g again, and more and more of and buses and cars roared and tional States have contributed to ill selves. That is what comes of this the congregation got up and raced by all day. It ls a dangerous feeling among men, that they have subservience to the State, it has swayed and sang, and people were street and full of the dirt of traf­ maintained themselves by violence, always happened, with moral cer­ waiting, waiting, for something to fic. Directly in back are the Penn­ that they have made for innumer- tainty we can say that it will bap­ happen. sylvania railroad tracks; down the able wars, that they have been pen again. Union of Church and You felt that in the air, that street are gigantic junk yards, little else than fronts for the ruling State in the world as we know it waiting, that tenseness, that ex-· fencing in with ten foot fences all heaven, literally dragged into the classes and have served the peoples is a snar.e of the devil. A delusion. citement. The rhythm of the sing­ other vacant spaces wh'ere the wedding feast, dying happy and very badly indeed. Therefore na- a. blasphemy. There shQuld be no ing, the clapping, went on and on, children wei:e used to play. Down sure, and already, before death, tional States ·are un-Chr~stian, are such union for our program should staccato, sharp, till the breath the street on the other side is given a foretaste of the life to indeed anti-~bristian as is any in- look to the liquidation of the State come. quickened~ and the heart beat Swift's. stitution that thrives on discord and the substitution for it of de­ faster, and the excitement rose What do these people eat? Beans Violence and hate and war-which sets itself centralized and local people's or­ again and ag.ain, and again and cooked up· in bacon rind. Beans And those Communist women, up to say that the Christian ideal ganizations. again fell exhausted. and oxtail broth. Swift sells them Panker, Vermeersch, "Bloor, Knusi­ of universal brotherhood wm not The Muses Someday something will happen, all the trimming at top prices. nen-have they so changed? We be realized. Those who are there- The masses may not always be someday there will be the climax, Swift smells. are given a horrible picture of fore convinced of the iniquitous right but r am far from convinced the glory, the fullness of life, re­ • Compassion brute . strength, · all softness and character of the nation-State are that the masses are anymore asses lease,' joy and freedom. You felt An ordinary journalistic device tenderness gone. We know . there justified in a·dvocating civil dis- than those who constitute the rul­ it in the air. is to paint a picture with contrasts. is evil, cruelty, disease, vice, it is obedience in an effort to bring to ing classes, or than the intellectu­ Misery It is an emotional way of making all ·Around us in these slums in the attention· of peoples the im- als, or the white collar workers. I Meanwhile, across the street a point. But our aim also is to which we live. Graham Greene, in moral character of the set-up and don't think the masses succumb from 1017 the open windows of move the heart, stir the will to all his books, is haunted by the also to avoid cooperation with the any more to propaganda, to fads, another Church of God gave us a action; to arouse pity, compassion, violence, the sin, of the world. It State in the mortal sin of modern to advertising, than do these view of a young sturdy N:egro with to awaken the conscience. We want is a fearful picture he draws, too. war and in the systematic exploita- others. And so in this matter of seemingly inexhaustible voice, who to do such work as Kaethe Koll­ Love tion of labor that characterizes government I think local dem­ shouted, who groaned, who cried witz, and so does Mary Frecon. How to draw a picture ·of t}1e such . reg~es. T~day civil dis· ocratic units preferable. Mistakes out, who kept saying over and Cogipassion, it is a word meaning strength of love. It seems at times obedience is obedience to GOD. do not come because the people over, "God has taken my children. "to suffer with." If we all carry a that we need a blind faith to be­ Submission Iare incapable of governing them- He has killed them all. The Lord little of the burden, it will be lieve in it at all. There is so much As for the obligation of submis- selves. They come for the same gave, the Lon~ took away. God lightened. If we share in the suf­ failure all about us. It is so hl!ld sion to the State, an obligation reason that they come with cap­ help us all. We got misery. Ev,ery­ fering of the world, then some will to reconcile oneself to such suffer­ stressed by those. theologians who italist or monarchist or republican one got misery. God killed my no~ have to enaure so heavy an ing, such long-enduring suffering hold that the individual can safely rule. Because there is no accept· children. He burned my house. affliction. It evens out. What you of body and soul that the only trust his conscience to the State ance of an objective moral code to Oh God, God. Oh my God. But I do here in New York, in Harris­ thing one can do is. to stand by in this matter of war because the which any organization of ·society. say Amen. Amen. All right then, burg, helps those in China, India, and sa~e the dying ones who have politicians ai:e in a better position can refer to determine the morality God killed my children. G;od South Africa, Europe, Russia, as given up hope of reaching -out for to know the facts, there is this to of any governmental action. There burns my house. Amen, God. well as in the oasis where y0u are. beauty, joy, ease and pleasure in say: That such a position assumes would be no danger to minority Amen." You may think you are alone. But this life. For all their reaching, the existence of a State which is groups, no doctrine that counting It went on and on, and it was we are members one of another. they got little of it. To see these run along Christian principles, heads determines the right or ·only when he stopped for breath, We are children of God together. things in the light of faith, God's which feels a responsibility before wrong of anything, if all men and a woman on a bench near him Contrast Ana Pauker, whose mercy! God's justice! His devour­ God and acts accordingly. We have would accept voluntarily the Ser­ took up the reading of the book picture appeared on Time a few ing love! I read one story of the yet to know of .the existence of mon on the Mount as the pattern of Job, that we realized that he weeks ago, and :(\iary Frecon. It death of the Little Flower, and such a State-we know of none of life, as the norm t'o which they was acting out his concept of the was a fearful picture. The story her death was just as hanowing such today. What we do know is could refer problems and as some­ suffering Job. He groaned, he tore described her as "the most power­ in its suffering as that of Mary's that the State is motivated by no thing which transcends their indi­ his hair, his knees buckled un­ ful woman alive and millions de­ Katie. Her flesh was a mass of ethical considerations that are not vidual desires and restrains what der him, he roared in anguish, And pended on her for life, bread;' and sores, her bones protruded through strictly utilitarian. That the State aggressive. behaviour there may be then after a- long, long time, when spiritual guidance ... Ana Pauker, her skin, she was a living skeleton, 1,1ses religion up to the point where of man to man. Only when we· the nerves were taut and could not communist and key figure. in the a victim of l< ve. We have not such there is conflict between. what re- have such a point of reference as stand a~ more, suddenly· . he struggle for the world . . . Leading compassion, J¥>r ever will have. ligion demands and what the pol- this, only as we· accept it as the stopped and the singing began Communist in Russian satellite What we do is so little. iticians want. And it is what the basis of our society, will we have again, a single tune which was bar­ states from the Baltic to the Adri­ The stink of the world's lilJUS­ po}iticians want that decides the justice. It becomes then a matter baric, horrible, monotonous, always abic." (We notice that Finland is tice and the world's indifference is course of the State. And we have of endeavor towards the formation the same tune, here and around the never listed as a satellite state." all around us. The smell of the further experience in knowing that of such a mentality in order that a corner, down the street, the Small as she is, powerless as she dead rat, the smell of acrid oil what the politicians want has no peoples government might be based rhythm the same, the beat the seems to be, she keeps her in­ from the engines of the Pennsyl­ reference whatever to the norms on it and that we come as close as same, until the pulse quickened tegrity.) Ana is described as fat vania raili-oad, the smell of boiled of Christian morality. So, in the possible to a Christian solution of again and the breath came short. and ugly, cold as the frozen Dan­ bones from Swift's. The smell of concrete situation, in the world as social problems. All . through the warm night ube, bold as a boyar on his own dying human beings. it is, we can say with moral cer- But it is an error to oppose real there was the smell of rats. The rich land, and pitiless as a scythe Souls! But we are living in the ta.l'Dty that presumptive justice lies, democracy with the excuse that smell of dead things, the smell of in the Moldavian grain." A poetic (Continued on page 8) not with the State , but . wi~l;i ~ ~t~e , ~Continued on page 8) TB·E CATHOLIC WORKER Fr. McSorley Needs Th.e Trial. Secularism vs. Commmiism r (Continued from "pa(e 1) · Relrgious Artic1es £Co&tinued from pa1e u - Peace and outra... in1 public de-+-swaggerinf and shamblina, some Father Frllllcis· J . M"'c.,or.iey, " Sunday morru'na...... But let .them:· any individual pacifist who is Ce..,.y. e with their hair well cut, and o ther.s o .M . r ., w h ose appeal f or a statue learn to keep their own. sphere. ready to shed his own blood. for ...The trl'al was postponed for ten with it hangiJ)g down on t h eir o f St. A n· thony was publ" is h e d m· Let them never question the mo- his. conscience sake, for stra11ht day.' the cbarae .beinf an un- necks. All were "hQmeless. our "J une issue,· · i'nf orms us t"'·t,... he rality of any particular piece of religion's sake, _with no mixture of a: has received two statues in re- military strategy, nor discuss the nationalism. Murder, especially familiarBob and one, tha andthirteen on Sep~mber others ap-27 Thare w·"reGardenias men arrested · for sponse to that request. . He is· also sinfulness. of various- weapons, nor mass murder, is sanctioned,. t but,_ peared in Court~ at ten o'clock .in peddl1'ng~ on,_ the streets to earn a in· need o f 1arge numbe rs o" f r.,iI.,..,.... · .,; - preach too boldly the practical mart3'rdom in the stnc • senset th '3.. the mo-1n1. It was a small -eourt liVI'nl as w· ell a~ those .who were ous arti cles f or bis . Phil'1ppme · mis- love of one's· .enemies, nor be too out. It is significant to no e b room' ·~On 2nd avenue . and 2nd arrested for do·1·n"· nothin"" but sion w«tr k . R osar1es,· med as,l s t a t - interested in the morality of army the vast majority of the tamartyrs ts Street' Wl'th only three _rows of drm'k on the streets."' Of half• a µe t tes,- s acred H ·eart b a d ges, scapu- policy. · Religion bas its place; let of both Old and New. Tes menl benches' and from the tint bench dozen who were escorted in with l ars, e t c., wi·ll - b e gra· t e f u nY re~ it keep to it.. The· boys are even were killed by the1T ownb Rpeop e: You Could see direc•ly into the jail· ' bo~·es and suit cases all 'were re- cetve· d b Y F a th er M c So r l ey an d his encouraged to take up some _re- Jews by Jews, R_omans . yt'·, omans,b- ' ~ - brother missionaries. The articles ligion. It · makes them more obe- etc. They were <;pnsc1en ious o corridor with th~ cells barred .as leased put two who had no l~~enses. may be addresed to Richard T. dient soldiers more content, more jectors to the ideas held by the though for maniacs or for wil~ ·Would not this be cons1der~d Mcsorley 4116 Baltimore , Ave. docile, and wlth less mind of tlleil- majoTity of their fellow citizens. beasts. The courtroom was bar.e o "false arrest'.'? I remember Char e Philadel hla Pa. and we ho th~ own·. It acts much like opium. In- They knew God's ideas were dif­ adomment save for an American Rich a Jewish convert, who spent P . • b ' · pe •t deed it is Secularism not Com- ferent. Bein& of the same race and 1'1.ag just behind the Judge's seat. I yea,..: readlna and studying in the- respotnsehiw1f1 1 . e as genalerous as I d . nf . 1 d th ·~ ~... · d was 0 s ormer appe . munism that has ma e religion the nation there was no co us1on re- Our own lawyer was ate an . e Ipublic "libracy and who earne a o"piate of the people, something for sulting from international confiict. judge was on time, so al! the. other meag~r living sel~ing ~ardenias: r------,~,------"T t the weak it shot in the arm for The issue was purely religious. cases were broufht 1n first. '-'The smell of them will · always those wh~ can't take the pains of Hence they are martyrs and their Youn~ Woman Iremind me of policemen," he said NOTES life, a prop to sustain you in times names will live on hi the church First there was a very_ good look-, 11adly. of dan1er. There are no atheists of God. "A man's enemies shall lng youn1 woman, tall, slim, well Our own case finally c~e up in f.ox-hoies. Some belief is quite be they of his own household" di-eased and defiant. She had .lit- and when it did .I was feeling as The Catholic Arts Quarterly important for army purposes. But not foreigners. When Americans tle makeup, her clothes were in terise as. the defendants. _They had is being ·edited now by Ade let it keep to its own allotted time are killed by Americans for their 1ood taste and she held her head a lawyer, Allan Early and h~ ques- Bethune and tw.o of the num- ai:id department. conscience sake, the age of mar up wtth an amused defiance. The tioned the. policeman who bad ar- bers this last year have dealt Secularism bas departmentalized tyrs will again be with us, and policeman's story was that she had rested the defendants, .after the with heraldry in a. beautifully life. Many a secularist receives Secularism's throne will have tot caused a disturbance at three 'state's lawyer had finlshed his reproduced. manusctj.pt with Holy Communion frequently, per- tered. _ o'clock in the morning in front of questioning, which questioning was illustrations. Whenever I see haps even daily. But this is only Love her husband's rooming house on trying to bring' out the intent of this script of Ade's or Fr. · i al ll b · Hi for his sp ritu we - emg. s The powers of evil can never the upper west side and had been the picketing, and the provocative .Caticb'.s, or Graham Carey's. I morning Mass-going lias nothing know unity, nor can we be united arrested at the behest of the land- and inftammatory' nature of their am filled with_gratitude for the to 00 with his day of working, with any of them. Devils can lord when she refused to go away. signs. Our oWn lawyer seemed to beauty of their writing, their· eating, recreation or sleeping. St. never live in peace, nor we with When the judge who was a young be trying to prove that the pickets presentation of their thoughts. Pauls words, "Whether you eat or them. Secularism and Communism man beean que~tioning her· th~re were quiet and ord~ly, did not in- None of them hesitate to.use the drink or whatever else you do, d!) will never make bedfellows, nOI was that look of conscious adniira- terfere with the "public peace," typewriter, which is "an exten- all in the name of the Lord Jesus" we with either of them. Yet this tion on bis face, a look almost of did not obstruct traffic, · in other sion of the hand of man," as are meaningless to him. Mass and is just what we have tried to do recognition passing between the words that ne one paid any atten- · Peter used to say, but when the Sacraments ar1'! supposed to In World war II, we joined with two, not that I think they knew tion to them. . they write they do it beauti- more or less automatically insure Communism, the lesser devil. Re each other, but that they recog- It reminded me, such question- · fully, so that it is a joy to re- a certain peace of mind here and sult? Neither peace nor unity. Now nized the attractiveness of each ing, of o\ir own Catherine Smith's ceive a word from them. Indeed an eternity of happiness hereafter. we are about to be taken in by other." 'l'here was an element of tart remark to a bystander who we have a duty, an obligation Whether, after the Holy Sacrifice, the greater, our own Secularism sex in their looking at each: other wanted to know what ·we were to write well, to learn how to be drops bombs on helpless worn- The results cannot but be more almost in the sense as the term picketing for when we walked up form ietters, whether it is only en and children, .or just keeps the tragic still. What choice bas the "they knew each other" in the and dowri in front of the German for taldng notes, making up planes in order so others can do it, Catholic? has any believer in God? Bible. She was very attractive. consulate before the war. "None of lists, writing postals. One does makes little difference. As long as It is quite possible that the only She was not living with her hus- your business," she snapped and not need to be a "writer" or he thus professes his own love of choice may be martyrdom for con · band, she said; she had two chil- went on firmly picketing. She wa!! "artist" to Write well. "Whatso- God and his fellow Americans, I science sake. There is no redemp dren. She pleaded guilty. Yes, one that always insisted on being. ever you do in word or deed, do there is "no greater love." Secu- tion without the sheding of blood she had had something to drink, in on things whether or not she . all in the name of the Lord larism is not a respecter of per- But it is only innocent blood that she nodded amusedly. No, she was knew what they were about. Jesus." If we do all to please sons. I redeems. May God increase the not drunk, the officer testified. st. Thomas More Him, then our writing will Press , number of those paeifists who No Questions It also reminded me, that ques- change indeed. How can our press, even our while being called "traitor,': "Un There was no husband there to tioning, of the story of the martyr- The Quarterly bas many an Catholic press, so fulminate against I patriotic," "un - American," are help her, though she looked around dom of St. Thomas Mor@, by Chllill· interesting article, for instance, Communism, and pay so little at- ready to di~ with great love in the small room when she first came bers which I read last summer and "On the beauty of. ordinary tention to the poisonous root from their hearts for their fellow Amer in. She was at the mercy of the which led me to b.e not quite so things,''

'.J'HE CATHOLIC WORKER October, 1948. same intolerances. Political Cathol­ icism and P olitical Matxism are The State and the Christian psychological bedfellows. On Distributism-3 (Continued from page -6) Withdrawal By REV. JOHN J. McDONOUGH the people will make too many Bride of Christ by murder, be- mistakes, that they need to be led, cause they placed political allegi- When the Israelites were ex-